Two-sided Lieb-Thirring bounds

We prove upper and lower bounds for the number of eigenvalues of semi-bounded Schr\"odinger operators in all spatial dimensions. As a corollary, we obtain two-sided estimates for the sum of the negative eigenvalues of atomic Hamiltonians with Kato potentials. Instead of being in terms of the potential itself, as in the usual Lieb-Thirring result, the bounds are in terms of the landscape function, also known as the torsion function, which is a solution of (- + V +M) uM =1 in Rᵈ; here M is chosen so that the operator is positive. We further prove that the infimum of (uM^-1 - M) is a lower bound for the ground state energy E₀ and derive a simple iteration scheme converging to E₀.